Goals

Traditional research presentations at regional and national meetings provide invaluable overviews of emerging applications of new scientific methods, but do not allow for meaningful in-depth discussion of the particular experimental and computational details that comprise the bulk of the actual work involved. Similarly, short courses at major meetings tend to address broad topics in order to attract interest from many individuals, but generally do not allow for high-level, knowledge-sharing discussions between experienced and inexperienced individuals working in a targeted area. Textbooks can provide detailed information on specific topics, but they do not allow for interactions and there is always a lag time between the development of new methods and their incorporation in textbooks.  As a result, many graduate students and post-doctoral associates involved in major research efforts find themselves “re-inventing the wheel” in each separate research laboratory. This redundancy is especially common in the area of nonlinear optics, in which even relatively simple data analysis involves many nontrivial steps. The primary objective of this Chautauqua is to be a sustainable high-level “nuts and bolts” program centered on detailed discussions of analytical methods and data analysis in nonlinear optical and multiphoton measurements.

Past Meetings

2008

2007

2006